Tamara,
Hi,I'm a descendant of William & Margaret(
Williams)Ruark.They were my GGG-Grandparents.They resided in the area until 1876,when he passed away. I don't know if Margaret passed on before him or not.Their children were,that I know of,Francis Marion- born Feb.7,1847 & Joshua-dob? Francis,my GG-Grandpa,married Emma
McClaflin and they had 5 boys & 2 girls one of them being Virgil
Ozias, born Feb. 6 1883,my G-Grandpa who married
Verna Elizabeth
Sturdy on Aug.22,1906. They had 10 children, they were Elma who passed away in 1940,Eva,Ethmer,Curtis,Edith,
Eunice,Carl,Frank,Orville,& Francis Lester who was my Grandpa.Francis Lester married Annalea Mae
Hoover and they had Roy,Avanelle,& my father Barry who married Carol Ann Franco.They had my brother Larry D. and myself.My mother passed away in Nov. of 1981, my dad later remarried to Martha
Gwinn